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Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:06:16 -0800
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Re: No mouse.
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On 22 Oct 98 at 19:49, james ellis wrote:

> For some reason, W95 is unable to detect a mouse on this system. I
> tried two different devices and they don't detect. Any help would
> be appreciated.

  Assuming that these are serial mice (and so this is the problem
that I have seen several times before), try installing a DOS mouse
driver from CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT.
  Seriously.  Win 95 sometimes has trouble detecting a serial mouse,
but it will easily detect the DOS driver and replace it, while
booting,  with its own.  I didn't believe it when I was first told,
but I've seen it work half a dozen times now, and only seen it fail
once when the mouse was actually dead.

David G

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